Professor of Chemistry

Professor Feng Wang is an internationally recognised leader in computational chemistry, artificial intelligence for molecular design, sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), hydrogen technologies, and energy materials. Her research combines quantum chemistry, molecular simulation, machine learning, and digital science to accelerate the discovery of advanced materials, catalysts, pharmaceuticals, and clean-energy solutions. 

After completing her PhD in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry at the University of Newcastle, Australia, she held the prestigious NSERC International Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Waterloo, Canada, before joining The University of Melbourne and later Swinburne University of Technology. 

Professor Wang is a Fellow of both the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI) and the Australian Institute of Physics (FAIP). She has served on the Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts and held national leadership roles in Australia's high-performance computing and research infrastructure programs. She also assesses research proposals for major international funding agencies across Canada, Ireland, Switzerland and Singapore.

Her contributions to research and innovation have been recognised through numerous honours, including Winner of the Australian Aviation Awards 2026 Engineering Professional of the Year and Finalist for the Australian AI Awards 2026 AI Academic/Researcher of the Year.

Useful Links
Video1: Professor Feng Wang discusses her recent research in robust quantum mechanical optical reporting of EGFR inhibitors at Faculti (https://faculti.net/accelerating-optical-reporting-for-conformation-of-tyrosine-kinase-inhibitors-in-solutions/?gl=AU, Dec 2022)
Video2: Rational New Dye Design (for Organic dye DSSCs) with Machine Learning and AI (DyeMaker) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EdwUKXD1UA, Mr Minh Tai Nguyen, May 2019)
Video3: Girls4STEM for high school students (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxFpA13yEws&feature=youtu.be, August 2019)
Video4: Teaching undergraduate chemistry units in digital age. (https://commons.swinburne.edu.au/items/f47ba67d-b3e4-465b-ba4d-46102c2f88ea/1/, Dec. 2018)
Audio1: Audio recording of Professor Feng Wang's Digital Chemistry Research Laboratory (https://acaudio.com/profile/1485, Feng Wang)

Useful links about Professor Feng Wang's output
Web of Science: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/A-3770-2008
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6584-0516
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Feng-Wang-105
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fengwangswinburneunivaustralia/
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=e1pIT7oAAAAJ&hl=en